{"id":10862,"date":"2012-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/04\/1500-year-old-hanuman-temple-in-pakistan-being-renovated\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T12:00:00","slug":"1500-year-old-hanuman-temple-in-pakistan-being-renovated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/04\/1500-year-old-hanuman-temple-in-pakistan-being-renovated\/","title":{"rendered":"1,500-Year-Old Hanuman Temple In Pakistan Being Renovated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstrackindia.com\/newsdetails\/2012\/02\/20\/269336-1-500-year-old-Hindu-temple-in-Pakistan-to-be-renovated.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARACHI, PAKISTAN, February 20, 2012 (News Track India): The management of one of the oldest Hindu temples in Karachi, 1,500-year-old Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir, is adamant that it will complete the long-pending renovation work, despite encroachments on the temple&#8217;s plot, intimidation and threats by land grabbers as well as a lack of funds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The temple was supposed to be renovated within two years. But a shortage of funds and the cases we have been fighting for the ownership of our land have slowed down the process. Yet we won&#8217;t give up,&#8221; The Express Tribune quoted Shri Ram Nath Maharaj, the temple&#8217;s caretaker, as saying. The temple will get a facelift with the blocks of old stones that are being moulded into new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The temple holds special significance for Hindus as it is the only shrine in the world, which has a &#8216;natural statue&#8217; of Hanuman that is swayambhu, or not man-made, Maharaj added. The eight-foot blue and white statue was discovered at the site of the temple long ago. The room in which the statue is kept will not be touched during the renovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KARACHI, PAKISTAN, February 20, 2012 (News Track India): The management of one of the oldest Hindu temples in Karachi,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}